Eduardo Saenz de Buruaga

Eduardo Saenz de Buruaga (1893-17 February 1964) was a Captain-General of Nationalist Spain during the Spanish Civil War.

Biography
Eduardo Saenz de Buruaga was born in 1893 in Camaguey, Spanish Cuba, Spain. He was a colonel by 1936, and Saenz de Buruaga supported the July 1936 military uprising in Melilla at the start of the Spanish Civil War, assisting Francisco Franco during his uprising against the Frente Popular government. Saenz de Buruaga led nationalist forces at the Corunna Road, Jarama, and Teruel during the war, and he was responsible for the massacre of 700 in Baena and 2,000 more during the brutal repression in the city. He fought at the Battle of the Ebro towards the end of the war, and after the war's end, he served as Captain-General of Seville, the Balearic Islands, and Governor of Madrid before dying in 1964.